Posted on 05/06/2008 8:38:22 AM PDT by Josh Painter
Like in a scene from one of his horror novels, writer Stephen King channeled the spirit of John Kerry while addressing a group of high school students at the Library of Congress recently:
I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.What mysterious and evil force compels liberals to morph into complete morons when they deliver speeches to students? John Kerry was clearly possessed by some sinister entity in 2006 when he was speaking to students at Pasadena City College. The Senator and former Democrat Party Presidential Candidate advised them:
You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.Sean Hackbarth is on top of these strange occurrences, quoting the Pentagon's Bill Carr via a link to Gateway Pundit:
In fact, military recruits are far better educated than the general youth population, Carr said. More than 90 percent of recruits have a high school diploma, compared to about 75 percent of the U.S. youth population.Silly me, I thought that everyone knew that the Army requires a high school diploma or equivalent (such as a GED) of its enlistees.That's an important issue to the military, Carr said, because a traditional high school diploma is the single best indicator of a recruit's stick-to-it-ness and likelihood of successfully adjusting to military service. Recruits with a high school diploma have a 70 percent probability of completing a three-year enlistment versus a 50 percent chance for nongraduates.
The military has exceeded the 90-percent benchmark for recruits with high school diplomas every year since 1983, Carr noted.
Class discussion: If a high scool graduate lacks reading skills, is it because his or her NEA teachers did too much social engineering and not enough teaching?
Literature Students: Find the irony in the left's hostility to our military due to a sense of elitism born of ignorance.
Extra credit: Diagram the sentences in the King and Kerry quotes.
- JP
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King usually takes a poke at conservatives in his books. He’s a rabid leftist.
Clive Barker kicks King’s butt anyway.
This just goes to show how out of touch and stuck in the past certain people are. That these people never got past the Vietnam draft era mentality is telling. During that era, a common way to avoid the draft was to remain in college as long as possible. The people who employed this strategy viewed those that didn’t as imbeciles and idiots who weren’t smart enough to ‘game the system’. This not only displayed a shockingly elitist mentality, it also displayed an appalling lack of patriotism and civic responsibility. The people who let slip this telling bit of prejudice unknowingly speak volumes about where they come from, what their youthful prejudices were and what their true underlying principles are. The fact that they haven’t seen fit to adjust their views as they have matured and become adults is the most telling of all.
“Stephen King is a big dummy. Boycott King books and movies. :-)”
Stephen King saved me some money since I won’t buy the latest movie made from his book. The Myst.
Already started my boycott.
What would people expect from dink from Maine?
King has always hated the military. No shock here. Soldiers are the bad guys in half of his books.
Maybe he needs another van to knock some sense into him.
Ever get a glimpse of his King’s wife Tabitha (witchy name).
She is as rabid as they come and no doubt beat Stephen into compliance.
1,100 pages AND IT WAS A BLEEPING SPIDER?!!!!
All of his story plots are at an 8th grade level,he’s a junk author and apparently that bike accident has taken it’s toll too.
So sad. I have always liked how King scared the bejeebers ought of folks. Too bad his political views are even scarier than any of his novels.
I remember back about 10 years ago, he was on NPR talking about burning his draft card and protesting the Vietnam war. He also stated that there were very few times from the late 1960's to late 1980's when he wasn't bombed out on drugs and booze. Oddly enough he seemed to be a better writer before he sobered up. However, King also stated that, although he held strong liberal political views, he didn't believe in hammering his readers over the head with them. He said that he felt most of his books were politically neutral and that he didn't think it was productive to anger half of his audience just to make a point.
I guess that King either has decided that he's sold enough books and is wealthy enough that angering half his audience no longer matters or he thought that this speech would would go under the radar.
Given the coke bottle glasses that he wears (or used to wear, at least) I can’t imagine King would have qualified for military service.
I always found his movies to be stupid but then again, I'm not not a big horror flick fan either.
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